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I like both pokemon and puzzle games, but I won't download this for moral reasons. It's weird to find myself in this position because I dont take much moral stands, but microtransactions in a game that appeals to kids simply feels evil.Sometimes though add-on content and such have a place innthe game, like buying the extra chapter for Phoenix Wright DD, but this game doesnt even require your money to be a full experience, it just shuts down to make you wait or pay and that to me sounds like a horrible game design. And products that could cost money in any point should not be able to have the word "free" attached to them.

I tried reserving one, and in the end I managed to reserve from 2 stores! The thought of simply buying two and selling the other for profit crossed my mind, but then I thought the same track of thought as the article. I wouldnt want to be that guy, so I signed off the other reservation.

It was cool how in the end he said "perhaps we needed more children here"! As for myself too, I'm sure many players grew up feeling like gaming is their own thing and continue to feel so now that they're 30 years old. But Miyamoto reminded us that gaming is for -everyone-, not just for you.There's a place for games for specific audiences, but I think it's remarkable how New Super Mario U is the game on my Wii U people who otherwise wouldn't play games, look at, pick the mote and start having fun. I thought twice about getting the NSMBU, but it still is the most played game on my machine.

It has been noted that a significant percentage of Finnish people have a genetic mutation that makes them prone to violence, especially when intoxicated. Nonetheless, only a fraction minority of people with the genes carry out violent acts (almost all serial killers and repeated offenders on the other hand carry these genes). The largest effect on actually getting violent found in the study of these genes is your upbringing and background. Learning to live and cope with people in other ways than violence when growing up is the key factor. You can google this up, sorry I'm typing on the phone and won't be bothered to link ;9If you ask me, it's very different neurons that flare up when you feel like punching a person in front of you versus when you want to press the button to whip Dracula in the face to rid the fictional world of evil.

When I was 14 I heard that a friend of a friend in a small town owned a copy of Smash bros for 64. I got his phone number and called if he'd like to sell it (these games were hard to come by where I'm from) but he declined. On a completely unrelated note, I had an online friend who told that she was in a long-distance relationship and only told me the first name and the town of her boyfriend. Later, I was 19 and doing my military service, having a bit of a fever I was waiting at the hospital with a bunch of other guys, a good place to have a chat. I talked with a guy who turned out to love video games and I asked what his favorite game is. He told "Super Smash bros for 64" and then I realized to connect all these things, and successfully guessed his name. He was from the small town, possibly the only person for a long radius to own a copy of Smash bros, I had called him when I was 14 and he was the boyfriend of my never-met, old internet friend.True story.

Mario bros 3 was one of the BIG games that along with the NES helped to make video gaming the industry and form of entertainment that it is now. Super Mario World might have been a decisive game for Mario franchise or Nintendo's IP's to come, and SNES as a whole, but as for overall influence SMB3 would take the cake. I'd say.

Stadium was seriously a good extension for the game boy game. Storing your pokemon freely on the n64 with just popping in the cartridge, you couldn't do that with Pokemon Colosseum anymore, let alone play the gb game and then take the fight out with your friends on the big screen. Back in the day this game really took the cake.

Pokebank and transfer tool with yearly payment... Dream radar? Pokedex for 15$?? How about just one good old game that does all of that and more, like Stadium did it.

This one was the lamest of the gba castlevanias: slower and clunkier controls, small sprites and drab look at times, the map design and exploring is not even close to what the following titles have. But still a pretty good game! I'm expecting a 7/10 for the wii u vc version The later gba castlevanias started the triumph that was the ds castlevanias, which rock everyone's socks.

Maybe time has made my memories golden, but the first three Ace Attorney's were way better than Apollo Justice and Dual Destinies (which were cool games nonetheless). It sounds like a promise of something great that they include Sherlock Holmes in the story...My theory is, that since this would take place in 1850-1900 (? deduced from Sherlock and the illustrations of the characters...) the ace attorney might embark on a trip to London much like the real Chōshū Five who defied some laws and infliltrated Britain to gain knowledge of the western society and bring it back to Japan. If that's the case (pun intended) this game sounds awesome

Dang, I just bought Child of Light! I love these promotions but sometimes they just teach you hard handedly to wait for the promotions to come before buying...I could consider the Assassin's Creed 4, but I dont have the hard drive for it, and I bet you could soon buy a used disc for the price. Now as for that Mario bros. 3...

@LDXD If the makers of this game would have worked on publishing anything they would have rudimentary understanding of managing the looks and image of the game. The cruddy pictures just tell that these guys don't know how to present their game, and that might go for the game itself.How can we trust that the game would be nice to play when they can't even assemble a package of media materials?Of course it might be good and so could a meteorite fall on me, but you can totally deduce a lot of things from a single screenshot.

@OldWeeDog I concur, from Finland as well. I bet Tomodachi life is one of those oddities that can sell itself through with enough exposure.I've looked into the game and it looks fun, although I thoroughly understand people's suspicions about it. I would be ideal audience for it, but personally, there's just so many games on the market right now that picking games when they cost 10€ used or old is seriously my call instead of paying 40 or 50€ on launch. Mario kart 8 is the only game I've bought in launch this year, yet I dont have time to play all the great games I find for 5-10€.

Aww, c'mon!Trying to get the gamepad across to kids who are already using a tablet or a smartphone is like giving wholebran cereal to a kid with his pockets full of candy. Pay-to-win and get-the-app -generation of gamers seems like an existing reality to this old downer.While it's awesome to see all the young users all excited in the Miiverse, I actually feel that Wii U is like a mature haven from all the buzz and biz of social media devices...

I'd be happy to see 32gb of games that I like on Wii U jkthe only disc title I've downloaded so far has been the NSMBU. My DL/disc decision is largely based on if the game is the sort I'd play every day and know I won't sell forward I consider downloading.Like the AC3... it was pretty much like a movie in the sense that once I ploughed it through (sorry for the term, it wasn't my favorite :9) I didn't feel like playing it again, and I traded it off for a new game!If let's say a Zelda title came, I might download it because I'd be quite sure I wouldn't want to part with it.

My input:The Wii U is still finding it's place in the large market and Nintendo (appears to be?) active in proving the point of the controls and playing possibilities offered by the controller.According to Miyamoto, new IP is about making a new experience, so we might see a whole new kind of game that makes the best of Wii U's hardware. Hopefully in the way that Skyward Sword made the motion plus a justified necessity in a gamer household, this new IP/type of game would do the same for the Wii U system.

I remember this talk amongst the fans already with the wind waker... How the zelda had always been the same and people said "the new graphics don't make a game new in ideas..."Great games, and there's been a lot of development, but this has been an issue for like 10 years!

I come from a very peaceful country, and I believe the reason is that people don't need to point guns at each other. Social welfare, free education and public healthcare keep people busy studying, working and familying.
No offense americans, but I can't help but say that if people didn't need to resort to guns, they wouldn't.

Also, I find the hubbub about video games increasing violence completely silly. Of course it can warp the thoughts of little kids, but they are to be guided by the parents, not the government.

edit: we have one of the world's highest guns per capita due to necessary hunting and hobbyists. But I wouldn't want to live in a country where I would need a gun for safety.

I talked this over with a friend and if they can make it less than 50$, it would simply make it silly not to have a Wii. Although, that currency could as get you closer to a Wii U, so unless you're really desperate to play some gamecube games...

It's the japanese way of running a business... You need to know the people involved, because they work more like a feudal clan than an enterprise. Just saying I hope Miyamoto doesn't ruin his health cooped up in an office!

I also love the Metroidvanias. Apart from Zelda and Pokemon, those are the games that I have full heartedly completed to the last corner and secret and returned to every once in a while.Although, the Lords of Shadow was so different from "real" Castlevanias that I didn't expect them to follow any existing trend of the 'vanias.

I couldn't have handled a metroidvania without cheesy eighties rock tunes.

well now, I really hope it works as they say it should!I'm worried for the japanese ideas of social functions that might not work in many places.... But we'll fin out sooner or later! For better or for worse!

I've got this baby since I lived in Japan.Fiddling about with the book is a lot of fun, and it would be cool for many games to have a separate book like that. I remember how cool the manuals were as a kid, but nowadays they aren't that elaborate... I'd rather have the internet though, in 80's and 90's the manual might've been the only material you'd ever hope see about the game.The game itself is well made and riddled with beautiful animations and cutscenes, but in the core it's "just" a JRPG. So I don't think the western world collapses for missing this beauty, it's just a shame because I feel that the book combo gameplay could have more to offer and develop. (Although the trend of going towards digital releases is already making this kind of games a thing of history that never came to fruition).

"The graphical capacity of Wii U is 1,7 gamecubes + an android phone, according to the latest tests. Former understanding of 0,3 Xbox360s + three quarters of macbook pro is still causing some misunderstandings." -emeritus developer

I hope this is a success and other studios will start making their games too Production value for making 16-bit games now are very little, so the main expense would be in the design and manpower, which for this kinds of projects can find the peak of it's expertise.

Grhm, I've got so mixed feelings about this. Looks too wacky in a bad way, also it just seems to be following the trends of most liked dlc-game genres and slamming an unimaginative zoroark as the main character (not to mention the super terrifying enemy stones).But it seems to have a lot borrowed from Zelda (another unimaginative trait that's off putting, but might be a promise of something worthwhile) and the game seems to be made with nice care. Price isn't bad, so if the promises are kept, the game should be one of the eShop's best. But it really looks cheap, wacky and cardboardy.

@6. Joco84Totally. I'd change those stupid "jewel games" and "that 80's feel" garbage to the Wii shop's categorizing system any day.It's so obvious that they're trying to attach appealing ideas to shovel games that lack them.